Mrs.  JAMES  F.  GARVIN. 


Emma  Francis  Garvin  is  one  of  our  very 
busy  mother  missionaries  in  Santiago, 
Chili,  having  fonr  fine  boys  and  two  lit¬ 
tle  girls.  Three  of  the  sons  are  at  school 
here  in  the  States. 

Mrs.  Garvin  was  born  in  Marasli.  Tur¬ 
key,  January  13th,  1861.  Her  father  was  a 
Medical  Missionary  of  the  American 
Board  for  Foreign  Missions.  On  account 
of  her  mother’s  health  they  returned  to 
the  United  States  when  Mrs.  Garvin  was 
between  four  and  five  years  of  age.  Her 
father  then  left  the  practice  of  medicine 
for  the  ministry  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Mrs.  Garvin’s  girlhood  was  passed  in  the 
middle  west  and  one  year  was  spent  at 
Lenox  Collegiate  Institute,  Hopkinton, 
Iowa.  From  there  she  was  sent  to  Bock- 
ford  Seminary,  Illinois,  where  she  grad¬ 
uated  in  1880.  After  this  she  taught  three 
years  in  Iowa. 


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While  at  Hopkinton  she  met  James  F. 
Garvin  to  whom  she  was  married  on  June 
20.  1884,  at  Trenton,  Missouri.  On  August 
2nd  of  the  §ame  year  they  sailed  for 
Chili,  via  England,  reaching  Concepcion, 
their  destination,  on  October  5th. 

It  had  always  been  the  earnest  wish  of 
Mrs.  Garvin’s  parents  that  she  should  be¬ 
come  a  missionary.  When  she  was  about 
twelve  3rears  old  a  farewell  meeting  for  a 
Miss  Jewett,  a  missionary  to  Persia,  sent 
out  from  her  father’s  church,  made  a  deep 
impression  upon  her.  About  this  time  she 
united  with  the  church,  and  when  later 
she  became  engag’ed  to  one  who  was  to 
enter  the  foreign  field  it  seemed  to  be  in 
the  natural  order  of  things. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garvin  are  very  happy  that 
two  of  their  boys  now  in  the  States  have 
joined  the  Student  Volunteer  Band. 

Mrs.  Garvin  has  been  under  the  Board 
of  the  Southwest  ever  since  she  went  to 
the  Foreign  Field,  and  no  missionary  that 
we  have,  has  done  a  more  abiding  work. 
Her  cheerful  confronting  of  difficulties,  her 
tact  in  dealing  with  the  members  of  the 
Spanish-American  church  to  which  her 
husband  ministers,  and  her  wise  interest 
in  and  love  of  the  young  people  by  whom 
she  is  surrounded,  have  made  her  a  power 
indeed.  Each  field  has  its  own  difficulties 


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and  problems,  requiring-  a  different  person¬ 
ality  in  the  missionary  who  has  to  meet 
them,  and  we  feel  that  in  Mrs.  Garvin  the 
church  has  the  right  woman  in  the  right 
place. 


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Published  by  the 

WOMAN’S  PRESBYTERIAN  BOARD  OF  FOREIGN 
MISSIONS  OF  THE  SOUTHWEST, 

708  Odd  Fellows’  Building, 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 


Price  3  cents  per  single  Sketch. 
Series  of  fourteen  Sketches. 


